High Stakes Poker returned to the Game Show Network (GSN) on April 27, for episode nine of the fifth season. You can watch the episode online by clicking the play button below.

The show opens up with a discussion about Gus Hansen, meanwhile Simon limps with aces, Negreanu and Esfandiari call. The flop comes KK3, Antonio [...]

Ivan Demidov being the new face of poker in Russia, many new Russian players are now turning to online poker to craft their game.The Russian Poker Tour hosted by PokerStars has been called a success when 201 entrants took part in pokerstars 1st event in russia.Winner of the event was guaranteed over $300,000 usd as it was a 5k event.While Demidov didn’t make the final table, it was still dominated by native players such as Sergey Solntsev and Dimitru Gaina.

One of the big issues over the last few years have centered around the re-buy events at the WSOP.Daniel Negreanu have stated that good players have a significant advantage in these types of events if they choose to re-buy enough times, can place deeper than players with smaller bankrolls and it diminished the value of winning a WSOP re-buy bracelet.

The fourth annual Winter Poker Open is scheduled to last for 17 days and will culminate with the Borgata Championship Event which will be played January 25 through 29.This year’s opening event will be a $350 + $50 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em event featuring two starting days.  The Borgata has 46 separate widely varied events scheduled including No Limit Hold’em, Deep Stack, Ladies and Seniors events, Limit, Omaha High and Pot Limit tournaments, and a HORSE event in addition to single table tournaments and live action in their 85 table poker room.

The seventh season of the World Poker Tour launched last Sunday on Fox Sports Net.The Best Damn Poker Show will debut on Monday, January 12, 2009 with the first of expected seven new episodes. The series will air on Fox Sports Net and is being sponsored by Ultimate Bet.  Two of the online poker room’s most well known players will take part, Annie Duke and 11 time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Phil Hellmuth.

World poker tour southern poker championship is being held from January 2 through January 17 and the schedule is packed with 15 poker tournaments.Buy in for the 15 tournaments start as low as $300 and main event cost $10,000 to enter.The main event is a 4 days event from January 14-17 and is expected to have a 1 million dollars prize for the winner along with a gold and diamond bracelet and a $25,000 entry into the World Poker Tour World Championship at Bellagio in April 2009.

There will be a singing contest taking place in irish poker championship between poker players.There is no listed prize or amount of money for the winner but players such as David “Devilfish” Ulliott ,Kenna James and Jon Kalmar are known to do big props bet.There will also be an event no Sunday, January 4th to not only raise money but awareness for the plight of homeless individuals in the country.

Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet were notorious for its previous cheating scandal.After the merge to form a new network called Cereus,there was yet another glitch in their system again.Doubleballer was playing phil hellmuth heads up fixed limit holdem and the software malfunctioned and shipped the pot to the losing player phil hellmuth.

New seasons of poker after dark will start at 2:05Am Eastern standard time.There will be 16 new episode.The highlight for poker after dark is that players will buy in with their own cash and its a freeze out game with the winner taking all of the prize pool.There will be new faces such as Tom “Durrr” Dwan and David “raptor” Benefield joining to show to prove they are 1 of the best in the world.

It has been comfirmed that NoIQPoker will be leaving ipoker due to conflict of interest and NoIQ will be joining a new network.More details about the new network will be announced on 29th of december.NoIQPoker will be running its biggest race ever for january.It will be $500,000 + $100,000 mini warm up race .How is a big boast of your bankroll sounds to you?In addition to the NoIQPoker race,bankroll backer will be running its own exclusive $18,250 race.